Refrigerator.



PATBNTED JUNE 6, 19,05.

.J. BQWHILTB. REPRIGERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30. v1903.

A Amm/Er l um n. uw vom No. 791,738, f PATENTBD JUNB'G. 1905. f J. B. WHITE.

REPR'IGBRATOR. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30. 1903.

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y A TTOHNEY merchandise are stored in common; and the ob- UNITED STATES Patented June 6, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. WHITE, 0E FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,738, dated J' une 6, 1905.

l Application filed June 30, 1903. Serial No. 163,73@

To all whom t mag/concern.'

Be it known that I, J AMES B. WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators; and I do declare the following tobev a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in refrigerators in which a number of articles of ject thereof is to so construct thev refrigerator that any one of said articles will be accessible without exposing the other articles or the vessels containing the same contained in the refrigerator. c

I accomplish my object by'the construction villustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

' capable of holding a quantity of water, and

2 2 are vertical partitions arranged therein which divide said tank into the compartments,

so as to form a central cooling-chamber 5 andk ice-chambers 3 and 4: upon either side of said cooling chamber. ranged over the ice-chambers 3 and 4:, respectively, and the cooling-chamber 5 is covered by the top 8 of the tank. A horizontal series .of holes 9 is made in each partition near their tops for the passage of air, and a similar series of holes 10 is made along the lower part of each partition for the passage of water. In

Hinged lids 6 7 are arsaid tank, serves to draw oif the water con.

tained therein.

The tank 1 is mounted ina case 17, the top of the tank ranging iiush with the upper edges of the sides of said case and the bottom of the tank resting upon a platform 18, supported in the upper part of said case. In the top of said platform is made a series of grooves 19, and a number of apertures 2O extend from the bottoms of said grooves through said platform and afford passages for air from said grooves into the chamber 21 of said case.

In using my. invention quantities of ice are placed in the compartments 3 and 4, and the tank is lled with water. As the ice melts the consequent water passes from said compartments through the holes 10 and is discharged through the overiiow-pipe. In thus passing the water circulates about the vessels submerged therein, and the air also circulates likewise. Thus the vessels are kept at a temperature corresponding to that ofi the water and air contained in the cooling-chamber 5.r

.It will be understood that access may be had to the vessels 13 severally by removing the corresponding covers and that when one of the covers is removed the compartments are not exposed to the exterior air, and hence the temperature of the air and water in the compartments is not raised nor the air therein disturbed, as would be the case if the entire top of the tank were raised like the lid of an ordinary ice-box. The contents of the other vessels are not exposed when only one of the covers is removed. The utility of this arrangement'isemorerapparent when the device is used by a vender who has frequent 0ccasion to gain access to the various vessels.

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The compartment 21 may be used for storing purposes for articles of perishable nature, the air therein being kept cool because of radiation from the bottom of the tank and the communication afforded by the grooves and apertures described.

Having set forth my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a refrigerator, a tank having icechambers in the ends thereof and a cooling-chamber intervening the ice-chambers; means of communication at the upper and lower parts of the ice-chamber with the cooling-chamber; openings in the top of said tank communicating with the cooling-chamber, the said open- 

